Active contours driven by non-local Gaussian distribution fitting energy for image segmentation.
Yupeng LiGuo CaoQian YuXuesong LiPublished in: Appl. Intell. (2018)
Keyphrases
- active contours
- gaussian distribution
- image segmentation
- region based active contours
- energy minimization
- gradient flow
- expectation maximization
- force field
- active contour model
- level set
- object boundaries
- level set method
- energy function
- maximum likelihood
- shape prior
- segmentation method
- energy functional
- gaussian mixture model
- global minimizers
- covariance matrices
- gradient vector flow
- chan vese model
- geodesic active contours
- texture image segmentation
- curve evolution
- computer vision
- intensity distribution
- gradient flows
- region growing
- em algorithm
- narrow band
- external force
- signed distance function
- geometric active contours
- active contour segmentation
- mixture model
- graph cuts
- markov random field
- multiscale
- image segmentation methods
- object segmentation
- gvf snake
- image processing
- prior knowledge